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Table 11.1 Continued

Differences
attributable
to constraints
faced by women
farmers

Productivity/
efficiency
differences Country Author and Year Sample Crop(s)

Malawi (National) Gilbert et al.

(2002)

1,385 farmers Maize Male plots have

12-19% higher
maize yields.

Women's plots
have lower input
use, notably
fertilizer and
labor.

Nigeria (Oyo State) Adeleke et al.

(2008)

70 smallholder
farmers

Maize, yam,
cassava,
vegetables,
legumes

No significant
difference in value
of production
(gross margin) for
male and female
farmers.

No information

Nigeria (Ondo&Ogun
States)

Timothy and
Adeoti (2006)

287 small-scale
cassava farmers;
data for 2004.

Cassava output Women are
slightly more
technically
efficient but
less allocatively
efficient.

Women
underutilize
inputs, and/or
purchase inputs of
different quality
or prices than
men.

Nigeria (Osun State) Oladeebo &
Fajuyigbe (2007)

100 farmers; data
for 2002/2003.

Rice Female farmers

have 66% lower
rice yields than
male farmers.

Gender
differences are
attributable to
differences in
input levels.

Nigeria (Oyo State) Saito et al (1994) 720 heads of

households and
plot specific data
for 1989/1990.
Regression analysis
for 226 heads
of households &
1,175 plots.

Food Dummy for

gender of
plot user is
statistically
insignificant
for household
level analysis.
However,
dummy for the
gender of plot
manager is 0.56
and statistically
significant
for plot level
regressions.

No information

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